Fusing apparatus for high speed electrophotography system
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsMuhammed Aslam, James D. Shifley, Robert D. Bobo
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Abstract
A fuser and receiver release system and method are provided for improving the release of receivers in high speed of printing systems. This system controls the release of a receiver in conjunction with a fuser in a printing system, and specifically the efficiency and accuracy of the release system. One embodiment of this method includes a belt fuser that allows the separating of the heat transfer and release functions of the fuser such that fuser roller could be made of hard metal core that can be heated to high temperatures without the fear of delaminating elastomeric coatings which are common in roller fusing.
Claims8
Method for maintaining print quality based on temperature measurements for a fuser for fusing toner to sheets of receiver media in an electrostatographic printer, comprising for each dedicated run of a specified receiver media, the steps of:
- a. providing a first data set, including set points representative of one or more media types;
- b. providing a second data set representative of a particular type of arriving media as a current media type;
- c. providing third data set representative of current thermal set-points related to a current set-up, including the current media type;
- d. selectively adjusting a release system adjacent to a pressure member at a release angle α from a line through a fusing nip in accordance with at least one of the data sets using a controller for changing the release angle α in accordance with the type of receiver media and the image on the current media type
- e. selectively moving a heating roller into contact with the fuser and increasing the temperature to an annealing temperature to refurbish the fuser.
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